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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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François-Marie Arouet
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Francois Marie Arouet
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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
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